- “Thank God— I might get my wife back now.” My continuing troubles with the sleeping drug Ambien, and when and why I finally sai
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In my previous post, I told you about my ongoing issues with sleeplessness and how a doctor prescribed the sleep aid Ambien in an effort to help me get some rest. When we last left off, I was telling you about how I tried dyeing my eyelashes in ...
Share - Michelle King Robson - 11/02/2010 - 21:28 - 1 comment
- Biopsy
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Biopsy by ]]> Amy Scholten, MPH ]]> ]]> Definition A biopsy is the removal of a sample of tissue or cells. A pathologist examines the sample under a microscope. A biopsy may be taken ...
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- Dave Balch: The Comfort in Finding the Good
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Let’s face it, bad things happen and we have to deal with them. It’s never easy. One technique that has worked well for my wife and me, though, is to try to find the good in the worst of situations. For example, when she was first diagnosed with ...
HerArticle - Dave Balch - 07/15/2009 - 13:39 - 0 comments
- Do Hormones at Every Age and Stage Cause Cancer? Research Needed!
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I am shifting away from yoga and sex to bring you some news from the community of women’s health research. Earlier this week, the Journal of the American Medicine Association published a study showing that women who took a combination of estrogen ...
HerArticle - Hannah Cutts - 10/22/2010 - 06:05 - 0 comments
- Women and Lung Cancer: A 21st Century Epidemic
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Medical researchers are faced with solving a difficult puzzle. Why is the prevalence of lung cancer in men decreasing at the same time it is increasing in women? Lung cancer in U.S. women is a contemporary epidemic that only recently has started ...
HerArticle - Lynette Summerill - 10/05/2010 - 10:06 - 2 comments
- Can a Breast Lump Not be Serious?
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There are few things more frightening to a woman than finding a lump in her breast. Breast cysts may feel like lumps, but they rarely contain tumors. A tumor is a solid mass of cells that occurs when something causes the cells to grow out of contr ...
HerArticle - Denise DeWitt - 04/15/2010 - 23:21 - 0 comments
- Mayo Clinic Researchers: Low Cost HER2 Test Sufficient for Most Women
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More than 207,000 American women will learn this year that they have breast cancer. The lucky ones will find out early, when breast cancer is the most treatable. If you are one of these women, tests will likely determine the treatment that is best fo ...
HerArticle - Lynette Summerill - 09/23/2010 - 10:45 - 0 comments
- Herbal Medicine Reduces the Toxicity of Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy has many side-effects, including nausea and vomiting, hair loss, exhaustion and even heart failure. It can greatly reduce the quality of life of the cancer patient and in some cases kill them. Sometimes a course of chemotherapy has to b ...
HerArticle - Joanna Karpasea... - 10/18/2010 - 09:27 - 0 comments
- Breast Cancer – An Overview
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As defined by BreastCancer.org, breast cancer is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells. How does cancer develop? This condition is a result of abnormal changes in the genes. These genes are the ones that control the growth of each cell in additi ...
HerArticle - Dita Faulkner - 05/04/2010 - 14:56 - 2 comments
- Chemo Therapy: Treatment and Side Effects
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I once worked in a hospital where my department (mammography) was located in the same building as the infusion center, where patients with different kinds of cancers came to get chemo therapy. Some patients who took the treatment were heavy smokers an ...
HerArticle - sandhya reddy - 10/12/2010 - 06:53 - 0 comments